President Roh Moo-hyun becomes South Korea's second incumbent head of state who has contributed an article under his own name to The Korea Times or any printed media in Korea.

Roh made the special contribution under the title of ``A Path Toward Peace on Korean Peninsula.''

Building a firm foundation for peace on the Korean peninsula is the first of the 12 policy goals of the Participatory Government, which was launched in February 2003.

Former President Kim Dae-jung was the first incumbent head of state to contribute an article under his name to The Korea Times and any printed media in Korea when he wrote an article titled Universal Globalism on the 1998 Nov. 5th edition of the nation's first English daily on the occasion of its 48th anniversary.

In the article, Kim wrote about universal globalism as a new tool by which all nations will achieve common prosperity in the information-oriented 21st century. The article was reprinted at around 30 dailies worldwide.

The Korea Times had the privilege of being the first to print the uncensored treatise of the two former and incumbent heads of state.